Creaky wrote:
It'd be useful if GW, upon a new edition, did a "Veterans look here!" PDF or something on their site that pointed out exactly what's changed, and where to find it in the rulebook.
I know I probably still have rules from long ago stuck in my head, and tend to just doggedly stick to what I know, sometimes even just skim reading the rules parts of the book unless I need to reference it. I should know better, but the habits are hard to kill.
That's one reason why this, if true, is a godsend - less having to learn new stuff, to replace old stuff, that was changed only because they needed something to change, rather than because it was poorly implemented (as 'regular' new editions tend to do).
I'm in the same situation! I've been playing/collecting since the beginning of LotR, and I was playing a game a couple of months ago. When I was going through the rulebook after the game, I read a change (can't remember what it was now) that would have completely altered the course of the game if we'd known about it before. I just assumed that section was pretty much the same, and so we didn't know about the update.